With the swirls of uncertainty and impending crap that needs to be done to be inspected for window replacement and the basement prep, it's enough to make us totally forget that we even had a vacation this year, much less two (coming back from Christmas vacation the first week of January.)
My friend is going to Kauai for her honeymoon in a few months and I've been helping her here and there since we've been there 10x. It has been a source of relaxation turning on KPOA, a Maui radio station, while I peruse things. (I'm listening as I type.) I found our favorite quirky cable access show Wala'au has some episodes on YouTube which takes us right back to Kauai because it was the only show we'd take time out to watch because the host is so funny. Of course, the Kauai Visitors Channel takes us back too because we'd get off of the plane and when we'd collapse from the 18 hour travel day door to door, flip it on and fall asleep.
We may not have a vacation until her destination wedding later in the year but listening to and watching these things help put me back in my happy place and honestly, are giving me the itch to go back. However, we both agreed on no Hawaii until we have a lot more weight off.
Where do you go in your mind for your favorite virtual vacation when a real one isn't in the immediate future?
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We've been fortunate enough to have been to many places that make it easy to go back to in my mind. Only real problem I have is choosing which one at any given time, but that's a good problem to have.
ReplyDeleteMine is the same one I use for the EMDR stuff because it's my "happy place" and that's the North Woods of Wisconsin (hence Woodsy). I have never felt more at peace and pure joy than up there. I have memories from being young, as well las finding the same cabin 13 years later with my hubs, to our own vacations up there with one of our dogs throughout the years. There is a certain scent up there, along with the sandy grass that makes a soft 'thud' sound when you walk because it's so packed down, that I just love. The smell of pine is like no other (dare I say even more than Colorado, but truth be told, I spent more time up north than out west), and when I can recall it in my mind, I'm installing soothed. And bald eagles galore, which just fascinate me. That's my happy place through and through.
ReplyDeleteWe go cabin camping at a mountain lake every summer. It's nothing fancy, but it super soothing to me. I have a picture of the lake as my phone wallpaper so I can look at it any time I want. Where I live is brown and dry except for like 3 days in the spring. That leaves me craving green - anytime I go places with lots of green trees I just feel myself relax. Up there it's all green, smells of campfire smoke & pine needles, and is 10-15 degrees cooler than home and that makes it just about perfect.
ReplyDeleteMy other "vacation" is always a book. I always have a book I'm reading (often 2-3 books at the same time) and all it takes is to open the book and slip into another locale for a quick vacation.